Want Tenure? Sign on the Dotted Line

by E Wayne Ross on October 21, 2008

The Chronicle: Want Tenure? Sign on the Dotted Line

Stephen Joel Trachtenberg: Want Tenure? Sign on the Dotted Line

Something is wrong with tenure, and we need to make it right. Abolishing it altogether is not politically or culturally feasible, or even likely. Any such attempt would set the many academic constituencies against all the rest simultaneously and, like the famous circular firing squad, leave everyone at least grievously injured and possibly some higher-education institutions dead.

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